1OverviewThe Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730P storage controller card:• Complies with serial-attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0 providing up to 12 Gb/sec throughput.• Supports Dell-qualified serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, SATA hard drives, and solid-state drives(SSDs).NOTE: Mixing 512–byte native and 512–byte emulated drives are allowed. But mixing 512–byteand 4KB native block size drives are not allowed.NOTE: Mixing drives of different speeds (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, or 15,000 rpm) and bandwidth(3 Gbps, 6 Gbps, or 12 Gbps) while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) andtechnology (HDD or SSD) is supported.• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.• Provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.• Supports operating system installation on 4KB drives using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface(UEFI).NOTE: BIOS does not support operating system installation on 4KB drives.The following table provides PERC H730P hardware specifications.Table 1. Hardware Specifications for PERC H730PSpecification PERC H730PRAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60Enclosures per port Not ApplicableProcessor Dell Adapter SAS RAID-on- Chip, 8-port with LSI 3108chipsetBackup Battery Unit (BBU) YesNon-volatile cache YesCache memory 2 GB DDR3 1866 MhzCache function Write Back, Write Through, No Read Ahead, and ReadAheadMaximum number of virtual disks per diskgroup16Online capacity expansion YesDedicated and global hot spares YesHot swap devices supported YesHardware XOR engine Yes11
